Mariano Gomes, Fr. José Burgos and Fr. Jacinto Zamora. The "GomBurZa" movie, an entry to the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), clearly pictured the ordinary lives of the three priests.

Twenty-four years before that, on Feb. 17, 1872, Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora — otherwise known as Gomburza, the portmanteau of their surnames — were executed by the same ...